Waninkoko is collecting money for an usb gecko right now. He didn't say it, but i think he won't continue his work on the cIOS until he has it. An usb gecko in Waninkoko's hand would be awesome anyways, it would speed up his development a lot. With an usb gecko he gets lots more info than by regular testing, while you may be able to tell where you get a black screen freeze, an usb gecko can tell for eample what commands the game send to the cIOS before the freeze(and it can a lot more). The last i heard was that he working at the IOS Reload problem and the nand emu, and both is something where debugging with an usb gecko is essential.
For those who don't understand, when i write something for NeoGamma and have a bug, i can just insert code into NeoGamma that makes it stop at certain places and display some info. That's why an usb gecko might nice for me but it's definatively not a must. But a cIOS can't output something to the screen, without an usb gecko, everything is done blindly.
The link is in his official irc channel: #cIOS on freenode
Donation link:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_...d=ECVA8XM89DFDA